War of the Camisards

May 14, 1702

In the Cevennes mountains of southern France, Protestant peasants, forced underground by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, rose against royal dragoons. Led by a baker boy named Cavalier and visionary prophetesses, they fought Louis XIV's army for three years in ravines and caves. Their defeat became a Huguenot memory carried to Berlin and Carolina.